Quarto. [2], vi, [4], 63pp, [4], 66-152pp. With half-title, a divisional title page for each lecture, and a terminal index. Bound by J. Larkins in contemporary dark green gilt-tooled half-morocco, marbled paper boards. Lightly rubbed, joints starting. Marbled endpapers. Spotting to front blank fly-leaves, otherwise internally clean and crisp.

The first edition of 'The Storm Cloud of the Nineteenth Century', two lectures delivered in February 1884 at the London Institution by prolific British art critic, lecturer and polymath John Ruskin (1819-1900). Ruskin's meteorological observations considered the effects of industrialisation on cloud cover and weather patterns, leading modern critics to interpret the work as a precursor to present discourses on climate change and global warming.

From the remains of the library of Stopford Brooke, recently dispersed from the estate of his great-grandson, Patrick Dockar-Drysdale (1929-2020).